Mclynn napoleon biography summary

While I was reading Andrew Roberts&#; excellent biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon: A Life, I was also reading Frank McLynn&#;s book Napoleon: A Biography on my Kindle.

So I&#;ve been a little immersed in the Napoleonic era as of late, and I might be suffering from Napoleon overload. McLynn&#;s book isn&#;t as good as Roberts&#;, but it&#;s still an excellent treatment of a fascinating figure.

McLynn is a psychological biographer who published a biography of Carl Jung the same year Napoleon: A Biography came out.

McLynn&#;s constant psychoanalyzing of Napoleon became tiring as the book went on, and I could have used a little less psychoanalytic theory. The book starts slowly, as McLynn spends a lot of time on Napoleon&#;s childhood.

But the pace picks up once Napoleon&#;s life becomes more interesting.